Recent content by sedrosken

Maybe try setting up Windows on the new drive fresh, and then cloning the disk so that your firmware picks up that it's supposed to be looking for a bootloader on the new drive?

Are you cloning the entire drive or just the main Windows partition? You need to see a few-hundred-meg FAT32 partition on your drive labelled as an EFI System Partition for the UEFI firmware to figure out what it's supposed to be booting from. Can you post a screenshot of what your partition...

Good riddance. It was long overdue and whatever companies end up tangled in it deserve what they get, IMO. We knew it was a bubble a very long time ago. I'll weep for the workers affected and getting dumped into an uncertain job market and a souring economy, but no one else.

And if you're already not-buying Windows 11, you can use certain enterprise grade versions that come without a lot of the annoying cruft. IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 is supposedly going to be supported until October of 2034. That said, you could stick with a 10 base and use LTSC 2021, which I...

That's... supposed to be a given. UEFI typically only functions on FAT32 volumes. It's why your ESP where your bootloaders get stuffed is in FAT32. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing an ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs, NTFS, exFAT, or even HPFS filesystem driver for it, but it's just... not...

In general, if there's a BIOS upgrade available and I don't have a specific reason for remaining behind, I'll flash it, but that has burnt me once or twice. Thankfully it was on a board with flashback capability where IIRC it kept a copy of the old firmware on another EEPROM that it could boot...

I miss FIC and Abit. Soltek, even. AOpen?

Typically my preferred vendor is ASRock, their stuff is a little quirky but it's always been dependable and excellent value for money. I'll take ASUS next, they're usually a bit spendier than I want, but sometimes it's worth it -- my home server got migrated from a Gigabyte x470 board with my...

Could have sworn I posted a response to this... Anyway, thanks for that suggestion Merc, I kicked the tires on it and while I'm not thrilled about its inclusion of a "Copilot" like feature or that it seems to be really enthusiastic about asking for feedback... I mostly prefer software that does...

Chewy, he asked in context of filling out forms, so something that can edit PDFs would be needed -- usually the editing functionality is what costs money. I've got to be honest, I just use SumatraPDF for reading them, then print them out, fill them out, and scan them back in, myself. I've heard...

I've discovered a procedure by which I can in theory decouple the DOS drivers for the Maestro2E from a Windows 9x install. I may end up doing so and dual-booting the (illegal, but whatever) CDU distribution of MS-DOS 7.1 with Windows 2000 or maybe even XP assuming I end up actually needing it...

Selaco is flat out running in the GZDoom engine. Zortch is another boomer shooter I enjoy. You might also like Ultrakill, but that can get pretty difficult and the visuals might be a bit... much at times. The Nightdive ports of Powerslave, Blood, Quake/Quake II, and Doom/Doom 2 are also all very...

I'm probably just about covered. I'd say I have less than 8k worth of equipment in my car and my blue book value is still 15k.

Yep, at any given time I'm carrying in my car a ladder, a stocked toolbox (including cabling stuff), several backup receipt printers and card readers for our point of sale clients, a 1000ft box of cat5e, a crate with lots of miscellaneous things like displayport to HDMI adapters, patch cables...

The thing is, this is exactly what the richest want -- they can weather the storm, buy up everything the small fry is forced to sell to survive, and further consolidate their ownership over... well... everything. I'm actually kind of glad I never planned to retire; at this point it looks like...